Material Master

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 Agenda: Material Master
What is Material Master
What is Material Type & Different Material Types
How to Create, Change & Display Material Master
Material Master Organizational Levels
Extending Material Master
Units of Measure in Material Master
Material Status in Material Master
Entry Aids in Material Master Maintenance
How to view changes made to Material Master
Views relevant for Production Planning module
Material Master Reports
 Overview - Material Master
Material

• Substance or commodity that is bought or sold on a

commercial basis, or is used, consumed, or created
in production. A material can also be a service.

Material master record

• It contains all the data required to manage a

material. This data is sorted according to various
criteria.
 Overview - Material Master
 The material master contains information on all the materials that
a company procures or produces, stores, and sells.
 For a company the material master record represents the central
source for data on materials.
 The material master is used by all components in the SAP Logistics
System.
 Every area of responsibility can have a material master view
because different user department in a company work with same
material and each of these departments to store different
information on the material.
 Each department has its own material master record view.
Views in the Material Master
 Material Type - Overview
 Materials with the same basic attributes are grouped together and
assigned to a material type. This allows you to manage different
materials in a uniform manner in accordance with your company's
requirements.
 When creating a material master record, you must assign the material
to a material type.
 The material type determines which business process (such as sales,
production, or purchasing) and functions (use of material in BOM or
routing) are allowed for material.
 Material types are created to manage different according to the
company standard requirements, materials with same characteristics
are grouped and assigned a material type.
 Examples of material types are Raw materials, packing materials, semi-
finished products, finished products.
Material Type
Different Material Types
Screens for Maintaining Material Master
Material Numbering
 Material Numbering
 Material Number uniquely identifying a material master record, and thus
a material.
 External number 4ssignment : If your company uses mnemonic keys
(normally alphanumeric), you enter the character string you want to use
as the material number when you create the material master record.
 Internal number assignment: If your company uses no mnemonic keys,
you do not enter a material number when creating a material master
record. Instead, the system assigns a consecutive number to the material.
This number is visible when you maintain the material master record.
 Material numbers can be up to 18 characters long.
 When creating a material master record, the type of number assignment
allowed depends on the material type chosen. In the standard R/3 System,
one external number range and one internal number range can be defined
for each material type or group of material types.
Material Master Organizational Levels
Extending Material Master
 Unit of measure
 Base unit of measure : This is the unit of measure in which the
stocks of a material are managed. The system converts all
quantities entered in other units to the base unit of measure.
 Alternative units of measure: All units of measure other than the
base unit of measure are referred to as alternative units of
measure.
 Some of the alternate unit if measure:
 Order unit - Purchasing
 Sales unit - Sales
 Unit of issue - Issuance
 WM unit - for WM
Units of Measure
Units of Measure Group
 Material Status
 Material Status allows you to control the usability of material for
business purposes.
 The material status tells you whether a material is subject to
restrictions (like material blocked for purchasing), and what they are.
For example, a material may be a part under development or one to be
discontinued.
 The use of a material can be restricted in a number of ways:
 Client level
 Plant level
 You can define the material status for all plants (client level) in basic
data view and separately for each plant (Plant level) in plant views.
 Material Status on client level overrides the plant dependent material
status.
Material Status
Entry Aids for Material Master
Mass Maintenance of Materials
How to view changes made to Material Master
 Material Master - PP Data
Basic Data View Classification View
Material number Class type 001 (Material)
Multi-language descriptions Class
Base unit of measure Characteristic value
Cross-plant material status
Size. weight. and so one
Drawing data
Indicator: Configurable mat. indicator

MRP View Work Scheduling View

Procurement type
Planning procedure (MPS, MRP, other)
Planning strategy
Lot size/safety stock rules
Indicator: Backflushing
Plant-specific material status
MRP group and controller
Assembly/component scrap
In-house production times
Indicator. Repetitive manufacturing
Issue/base unit of measure
Production scheduler
Indicator: Batch management
rqmt.
Delivery tolerances
In-house production times
Quality inspection indicator
Default receipt/issue storage
location
Material List
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